The police chief of a Florida beach town is blaming high school students, including many from Georgia, for causing mayhem this spring break —with their parents “nowhere to be seen.”
Panama City Beach police Chief J.R. Talamantez told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week that many of the Georgia teenagers his officers have arrested this spring break season are between 14 and 17 years old.
He said he didn’t have arrest numbers yet but said police are dealing with an array of bad behavior and illegal activity. Many of the alleged troublemakers are coming from nearby high-population areas, such as metro Atlanta, where major school districts are on spring break this week. For example, he said, a Tuesday night crowd of about 2,000 partying kids threw items at officers trying to manage the gathering…